Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived in gloomy Pittsburgh where his father's house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After college he traveled widely in search, he says, of something to interest him. Paintings did it. His first enthusiasm was Honore Daumier (1808-79) French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery...
...Washington there was joy aplenty at the prospect of Mr. Morrow in the Senate. Particularly pleased was President Hoover, whose enthusiasm had really brought the Morrow appointment to pass. If a President ever needed in the Senate a friend of the personality and capabilities credited to Mr. Morrow, that President is Herbert Hoover...
...present there are over 150 undergraduates going to Hemenway Gymnasium three to five times a week to take boxing lessons certainly enough material and enthusiasm from which to form several boxing teams. Nor can the oversight be due to lack of precedent and the four that there would be no matches for such a team. For a number of years both Yale and Dartmouth, to mention but two possible competitors, have had official boxing teams to whose members minor sports letters are awarded...
These elections are purely a student affair. It is up to the students themselves to show interest. One cannot expect a committee to sacrifice the time and expense to arouse enthusiasm and to solicit the attention of members of another class to vote for officers of this other class. If a man has enough interest to vote surely he can find it convenient to go to one of three places sometime during an entire morning. Those who have not sufficient interest need not be surprised at the outcome nor take it upon themselves to criticize a result which indeed they...
...Lone Wolf of Alaska." After arousing German enthusiasm by being the first outsider to pilot Claude Dornier's 12-motored flying boat, the DO-X (TIME, Nov. 25), George King, "lone wolf of Alaska," tuned the enthusiasm to higher pitch last week by proposing a flight, in a Junkers plane similar to the Atlantic flying Bremen (TIME, April 23, 1928), from Dessau, Germany, across Siberia, Alaska, Canada, to New York...